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The Shabti by Megaera C. Lorenz

Can you flimflam a ghost?

It’s 1934. Former medium Dashiel Quicke travels the country debunking spiritualism and false mediums while struggling to stay ahead of his ex-business partner and lover who wants him back at any cost. During a demonstration at a college campus, Dashiel meets Hermann Goschalk, an Egyptologist who’s convinced that he has a genuine haunted artifact on his hands. Certain there is a rational explanation for whatever is going on with Hermann’s relics, Dashiel would rather skip town, but soon finds himself falling for Hermann. He agrees to take a look after all and learns that something is haunting Hermann’s office indeed.

Faced with a real ghost Dashiel is terrified, but when the haunting takes a dangerous turn, he must use the tools of the shady trade he left behind to communicate with this otherworldly spirit before his past closes in.

Nefertiti Lived Here by Mary Chubb

In 1930 five young archaeologists embarked on an expedition to Egypt to investigate the site of Tell el Amarna, city of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. In this book Mary Chubb recalls her initiation into the world of Egyptology and the discoveries that she and her team made.

To be announced

All meetings are held online.

Please see below for a list of choices for our future meetings

Fiction:

• M. A. Bennett, The Mummy’s Curse

• Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

• Rachel Louise Driscoll, Nephthys

• Saara el-Arifi, Cleopatra

• H. Rider Haggard, She

• Isabel Ibañez, What the River Knows...

• Naguib Mahfouz, Akhenaten. Dweller in Truth

• Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank

• Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

• Dion Fortune, Moon Magic (unshortened reprinting by Weiser Books)

• Steven Siebert, Cleopatra’s Needle

Non Fiction:

• Agatha Christie, Come, Tell me how you live

• Georg Ebers, The Story of my Life

• Carl Graves, Howard Carter: from Tracer to Tutankhamun

• Hanny el-Zeini and Catherine Dees, Omm Sety’s Egypt

• Jill Kamil, Labib Habachi. The Life and Legacy of an Egyptologist

• Nicky Nielsen, Egyptomaniacs

• Rune Nyord, Yearning for Immortality

• Nadia Wassef, Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

• Peter Der Manuelian, Walking Among Pharaohs: George Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology

• Kathleen Sheppard, Tea on the Terrace

• Chris Naunton, Egyptologists‘ Notebooks

Dead Egyptians by Del Blackwater

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B Edwards

Meet the Author with Kathleen Sheppard - 17 June 2026 at 7pm UK time (BST) *Members Only*

Meet the Author with Carl Graves 3 December 2026, 7:00pm (GMT), via Zoom * Ticketed Event - Non-Members Please book here *